The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 11, 1936, Page 1

T VOL. XLVIIL, NO. 7198. HE DAILY ALA “ALL THE NE S ALL THE TIME“ JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1936, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS SKA EMPIR PRICE TEN CENTS GOVERNOR LANDON TO BE NOMINATED GENERAL RAIN IS PREDICTED DROUGHT AREA Farmers of Southern States| Look at Sun-Wither-- ed Farm Crops MEMPHIS, Tenn,, June 11. — A measure of hope returned today to| Southern farmers by the promise of a general rain on sun withered crops. timated at $135,000,000. The backbone of the drought was broken in the midsouth by a wind and electrical storm that swept dust, | hail and rain over East Arkansas, Tennessee, Northern Mississippi and Alabama. Two deaths have been reported as the result or the storm. 5900 Votes Given Dimond in Recent | Primary Election Truitt, Boyle, Hess Run Far Ahead, Official Re- turns Show With six precincts in the Second M. D. Williams, District Engineer Division with approximately 100 votes and two in the Fourth with, about 55 votes unreported, includ- ing 32 absentee ballots in the Fourth, results of the recent primary elec- tion for Territorial offices as com-; piled by the Territorial Auditor’s) office gives the following: Delegate—Anthony J. Dimond, First Division, 2408, Second, 542, Third 1,836, Fourth, 1,114, total 5.- 900; Lester O. Gore, First, 1,148, Second, 154, Third, 610, Fourth, 508, total 2,420 Already the damage .is es-| Auto Engme Powered lew Aboard Steamer for Seward for Flight, Anchorage, South | SEATTLE, June 11.—An automo- i bile engine powered plane, sched- charage to Seattle late this month, is crated aboard the Mount McKinley for the north. C. W. Broom, President of the IWnshmgloman who are sponsor CHAMBER WANTS B, OF P.R. TO OIL GLAGIER ROAD, Dust Makes Driving Haz ardous — Shattuck to Contact Bureau Chief | | | | be made for oiling the Glacier Highway will be made at once, it was decided at the luncheon meet- jing of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce after the proposal had | President Norman Banfield referred Ithe matter to the Eagle River Road |Committee of which Allen Shat- |tuck is Chairman, to take up with lof the B. P. R. | Homes out along the highway jcannot be kept clean due to the heavy dust raised by traffic, Mr. Robertson pointed out, and urged some action be taken immediately. JHis suggestion was given support by Frank A. Boyle and John Jones, 'the latter stressing the safety fea- |ture. The dust makes driving haz- ardous, Mr. Jones explained. | President Banfield reported on !the welcome extended the Los !Angeles Chamber of Commerce uled for a non-stop flight from An- | steamship ing the flight, to demonstrate the feasibility of air mail, also sailed on the vessel and carried with him twelve maps, which Capt. W. B. Voortmeyer, Alameda, California meterologist, prepared. One of two | pilots now in Anchorage will fly the | ship south. Rose Queen (the BLACK LEGION INVESTIGATION IS EXPANDING Trail Leadgg» Two M‘en; Connected with Large Automobile Plants DETROIT, Mich,, June 11.—The ANOTHER FIGHT UPON NEW DEAL Talks About Peace. Plenty,| Security to G. O. P Session Delegates CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 11.—In trail of the Black Legion terrorism |a sharp excoriation of the New Deal today led to three large automobile plants and resulted in Prank Rice, investigator of the Packard Com- and foremen of two other pany, before the Republican National Con- vention last night, Herbert Hoover compared it with the “march of | Bocialist and Fascist Dictatorships” factories being held as members of ' In Europe and called for the Amer- “intelligence squad.” They were 'ican people to enter upon a “Holy accused of burning a house owned Crusade for Liberty.” by Wiiliam Mollenhauer, of Oak-| land County, suspected Communist. Request to the Bureau of Public | [3 Roads to see if arrangements can | been presented by R. E. Robertson. | Prosecutor McCrea said he was convinced the Legion was “rapidly building strength for a coupe to establish a Fascist dictatorship.” He talked on the telephone to Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler of Philadel- |phia, who two years ago disclosed |an asserted Fascist plot to over- throw the Government. McCrea said Butler is coming to Detroit. Possibility of ~ Nuggets Worry Anclp[age Men ‘Excavation for Addition to Hotel Brings Up Question Pretty Janet Sooysmith, 16- year-cld high school girl shown | in her regal-raiment who is Queen cof the Rose Carnival at Portland, On.-xnn PORTLAND IS CELEBRATING ROSE AFFAIR ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 11.— The pusslmmv of finding nuggets nto the excavation of the basemem for the addition to the An- chorage Hotel work starting tomor- row. It is estimated that 2500 yards |of gravel will be run through the Addressing “Republicans and fel- low Americans,” the former Presi- dent and titular leader of his Par- ty, concluded his address to “step the retreat and lead the attack to retake and recapture and reman the citadels of Liberty, thus can America be preserved, thus can peace and plenty and security be re- established and expanded; thus can opportunity, inheritance and the | Spiritual future for our children , be guaranteed; thus you'll win grat- | itude, prosperity and the blessings of Almighty God.” Asserting the New Deal has de- layed recovery and contending that if continued its policies will result in “tears and anguish and Uni- , versal bankruptey,” Hoover there were little prospects that the New Deal has done little more than to take a few hundred thousand ear- nest workers to the promised land— and taken the rest of us for a ride into the wilderness of unemploy- ment." WASH. STATE DELEGATION FOR LANDON said ** by Speech; Political Thesis | of Campaign Believed Mmla ITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, June ll-—Pre"idem Franklin D. Roose- velt, late yesterday pledged his Administration to “march forward” under the “broad purposes” of the Constitution in meeting the econ- omic and social needs of the day Believe in Constitution The Chief Executive told a throng here that an overwhelming major- ity of the American people believed the Constitution was intended to “meet and fit the amazing physical, economic and social requirments that confront us in this genera- tion.” President Roosevelt said Jeffer- son had the courage to drive for the purchase of Louisiana des legal doubts. That case, he said, was never carried to the Supreme Court. Speaking an hour before former Song Hit of GOP Convention Work of Portland-Man Three Lorl;Yeal's" Sung to Tune of “Three Blind Mice” CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 11. The song hit of the convention is “Three Long Years,” sung to the tune of “Three Blind Mice” and written by Joe Dunne, of Portland, Ore. The Oregon delegation spread copies of the song around the con- vention hall and hotels and it has “caught on,” bandmasters vieing with one another in putting it over. The hit is based on Senator Fred- H[][]VEH MAKES Roosevelt Surpnses Throng P!('mdt‘nl Hoover's address at the LANDSLIDE IS ' PREDICTED AT 6.0.P. SESSION National Republican Convention | over a nation-wide hook-up, Presi- dent Roosevelt also declared that the country needed an “ardent prospectus of the rights of the common man” and he added that no group, by reason of wealth, |Either Col. Frank Knox or Sen. Vandenberg May Be Running Mate learning, inheritance or economic| VARIQUS CANDIDATES power could abrogate to itself polit- | ical control of American life long. Speech Is Surprise The substance of the speech came 45 a surprise to many members of the President’s party who had been led and believed he would confine his remarks to historic reference in tune with the occasion. for | ARE LEAVING FIELD ‘Delegahons Are Released —Convention Meets Again This Evening CLEVELAND, Ohio, June Many ob- | servers saw in the President’s re-|11.—With the nomination of marks the outlining of a political | . |Gov. Alfred M. Landon, of thesis which will become prominent | features in the fall campaign. . jKansas, to head the Republi- ‘ |can National ticket as Presi- PLATFURM UF 'dent conceded, the conven- i struggle centered on REPUBL'GANS composing the platform, name the ticket and permit ‘lhe delegates to get back home. Both Col. Frank Knox and & United States Senator Arthur Many (hang(‘s Are Made at H. Vardenberg are mentioned Suggestmn of Gov- as most likely for the Vice- ernor Landon Presidential nomination but Vandenberg has said repeat- CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 11—The edly he will not accept and Republican platform finally emerged i Colonet K. at noon today from the Resolutions Nas urged Colonet Knox. Th‘e Sub-Committee after a number of “Sun Flower State Candi- changes were made at the request gate” has even declined to of Gov. Landon. Members of the hi | sub-Committee said he had been|Nave his name presented for glven almost everything he had|the Presidential nomination. asked for, and changes had been The convention recessed made in the original cumpromm i 1 platform except the plank for this afternoon shortly after 3 constitutional amendment to pernm o’clock to 7 o’clock this eve- on's f Attorney General—James S. Truitt,’ which was here Tuesday and told First, 2,014, Second, 401, third 1,325, of the aid pledged by that group - Fourth, 921, total, 4,661; Harry G. to Alaska development. McCain, First, 1254, Second, 144,i A letter from C. C. Garland, Third, 554, Fourth, 452, total 2,404. Chairman of the Alaska Committee Auditor—Frank A. Boyle, First,!of the Tacoma Chamber of Com- 1,806, Second, 333, Third, 926, Fourth, merce, was read. The Tacoma erick Steiwer’s frequent use of the of minimum wage legislation by ping, phrase. States One verse goes as follows: The platform as it neared com- “Three long years. pletion in the Sub-Committee called| _ LANDSLIDE INDICATED “Three long years. for “sound currency to be pre-! CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 11. —In- “Full of grief and tears, served at all hazards”” The plank dications of a landslide for the pres- “Full of grief and tears. makes no mention of gold. |idential nomination of Gov. Alfred Another plank says the wage and M. Landon, of Kansas, with several sluice box, 500 feet to a vacant | i Thousands of Visitors, In- v cluding RCMP and Bagpipers There W. Hufeisen, Superintendent ,of the construction company, ad- mitted placing riffles in the sluice |box although excavation hasn't started yet. Nomination Expected Early | in Vote Call On Band Wagon, Too 821, total, 3,886; J. 8. Hofman, First, 452, Second, 146, Third, 854, Fourth, 269, total, 1721; Cash Cole, First, 735, Second, 124, Third, 432, Fourth, | 424, total, 1,715; C. H. M80upadden First, 643, Second, 31, Third, 249, Fourth, 136, total, 1,059. Highway Engineer — William A. Hesse, First, 1992, Second, 416, Third, 1,409, Fourth, 963, total, 4,780; Roy J. Storey, First, 717, Second, 92, Third, 410, Fourth 132, 1351; ond, 50, Third, total, 1,093. The small number of votes out- standing will make no material dif- ference in the results, according to Territorial Auditor Frank A. Boyle. .- — W. J. ROWE IS DEAD AT NOME NOME, Alaska, June 11.—Funeral arrangements are being made for W. J. Rowe, veteran Nome and Sew- ard Peninsula transfer business exe- cutive, who died Tuesday as the re- sult of an attack of the heart. At one time he had 100 head of horses here. He is survived by his widow, in Nome, and a daughter Margaret, in’ Seattle. - Twenty Dead, Hundred Killed, Train Accident NAPLES, June 11.—Twenty per- sons were killed- and one hundred injured ‘when a work train went off the track today a few miles from the Naples station. Two coaches were telescoped dnd another turned over. The train was going from Naples to Nola. Nome Bunkhouses May Be Operated on Three 8-Hour Shifts NOME, Alaska, June 11.—Bunk- house proprietors, moting that all available houses and cabins are oc- cupied, said they will operate their bunks on a 3 eight-hour shift basis if necessary. With the arrival of the Victoria today with several hundred persons, sleeping ‘quarters are at a premium as choice quarters have been grabbed by persons who flew here by plane before the ice cleared. total, | E. F. Wann, First, 349, Sec-| 267, Fourth, 427,! Chamber renewed its promise of support, particularly to the air mail lprogram and has its representa- jtive in Washington now working in behalf of the enterprise. e MOTHER DIES; SON WILL PAY SEATTLE, June 11.—Barney Wold, convicted of manslaughter for the death of his 89-year-old mother fol- lowing complications resulting from |a broken hip sustained when he threw her to the floor, has been sen- tenced to one year in the county jail | by Judge James Kinne. Wold, with tears in his eyes, said he would rather go to the State Penitentiary at Walla Walla in or- der to be removed from the scene of his deed. BADOGLIO IS GIVEN BOOST ROME, June 11.—Premier Benito Mussolini has retired Marshal Bad- logllo as Viceroy of Ethiopia and re- appointed him Chief of Staff of the Army and he will immediately re- organize all military forces. May Punch Nose Of Rexford Tugwell; Texan Is Wrathy . AUSTIN, Tex., June 11.—Eugene Worley, Panhandle legislator, prom- ises to punch Rexford Tugwell in the nose if the Resettlement Admin- istration Chief does not recall the “dust bowl” moving pictures. “They libel the greatest section in the United States,” Worley said. The two men might meet at the Democratic convention in Philadel- phia to which Worley is a delegate. — e FORWARD RETURNING Charles H. Forward, Forest Ex- aminer for the U. S. Forest Ser- vice who has been on the West Coast surveying areas for timber cruising, is expected to return tq his Juneau office on the Alaska. He has been gone about six weeks. PORTLAND, Oregon, June 11. — The City of Roses today gave full reign to the favored flower. Queen Janet Sooysmith and her Royal Court of seven Princesses| took the limelight at the Twenty- Eighth Annual Festival. Thousands of visitors are here including a contingent of the Royal Canadian Moun ted Police from| Vancouver, B. C., and bagpipers. —————— $53,006 PAID T0 GITY IN LIQUOR, | SCHOOL FUNDS $10,730 Represents Li- cense Revenue; $44,- 276 School Money Payment to the city of Juneau from Jiquor license fees and in school money during the period from August 19, last year, to June 4, this year amounted to $55,006.44, according to figures compiled by the| Territorial Auditor's office. Of this amount $10,730.11 * represented re- funds from liquor license revenues and $44,276.33 was school money. ‘The liguor refunds while paid in the above mentioned period actually covered the time from April 1, 1935 to March 31, 1938.° Of the $10,730.11 refunded to the city, $5.435.08 was collected from April to July 31, last year, and $5,295,03 from August 1 of last year to March 31, this.year, the report shows. - - 16 Straight-Days Of Sunshine Equals All-Time Record Another day of sunshine today brought it to 16 straight, equaling the record made on three former occasions for continuous days of summer sunshine, the most notable previous one being in 1915, a long, dry, hot summer. Meteorologist Howard J. Thomp- son was forecasting fair tonight with possibly turning cloudy tomor- row. If it remains clear tomorrow a new record for continuous sun- shine in Juneau will be established. Volunteer lawyers are already rais- ing the “legal” question as to who ‘will own the gold if any is found They expressed the opinion it will belong to the owners of the land. Hufeisen says he's the boss so it will be his. ANYOX FIRE IS UNDER CONTROL ANYOX, B. C, June 11.—Volun- teer crews of fire fighters, after a three-day battle, brought under control the forest fire which de- stroyed deserted mine buildings of the Granby Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company. The school house and the town of 50 people were threatened by the fire. Forest Ranger J. B. Scott of Prince. Rupert, came here direct, and several small coastal vessels stood by at Observatory Inlet pre- pared to evacuate residents. > Dies from Injuries Received in Idaho Whirlwind Sunday LEWISTON, Idaho, June 11.—Mrs W. D. Lough, aged 52, is dead as the result of injuries sustained in a whirlwind which killed her husband and wrecked their home and farm buildings near Reubens last Sun- day. FINLAND 1§ TO PAYWAR DEBT WASHINGTON, June 11. — The Government of Finland had notified Secretary of State Cordell Hull that Finland will meet the regular semi- annual war debt installment of $164,315. The payment falls due on next Monday, June 15. e s PRACTICE GAME IS ' SLATED FOR TONIGHT A practice game is slated for 6:30 o'clock tonight at the ball park between the Moose and Am- erican Legion teams. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 11. Washington State delegates who have been opposing the nomination of Gov. Alfred Landon for the Re- publican nomination for the Pres- idency, virtually gave up hope to- dny of making any headway. Kenneth Klepser, of Everett, said: | “It looks like Landon will be nom- .mflted long before the Washington | vote is called and there is nothing | | left but to climb on the band wa-| gon.” At least half of the delvgnnonx | sixteen votes would have gone for| ‘Vandenberg or Knox. | Chiaf Sncals Is Assassinated | MADRID, June 11—Antanio Ro- | mano, aged (2, President of the Ma- laga Provincial Parliament and the Province’s leading Socialist, has been assassinated on the street in the City of Malaga. This is ac-| cording to official advices received here. | Street fighting immediately broke out between partisans of the So- cialist and Syndicalist factions. The government is reported smashing! the Rightist movement . | An unidentified man shot Ro-| mano as he appeared on the street.| A general strike has paralyzed‘ Malaga although 110,000 farmers| voted to end the long strike wmch has been for *higher prices and m-‘ creased wages. School Boy Dies Two Weeks After 'Graduating KETTLE FALLS, Wash., June 11.| —A gangrene infection following | after a fall from a tree in an apple | orchard killed Elvia Buckley two| weeks after his graduation from| the Kettle Falls High School. His i classmates were the pallbearers and | they were attired as they appeared nt the baccalaureate services. — - ALASKA DUE TOMORROW Steamer Alaska is due in port tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock ac- cording to advices received this af- | plan to portray on canvas Indian life Jones averages: ternoon from Ketchikan. “When we got to the promised land “We found nothing but shift- ing sand, “Left unstripped Rand, “For three long years.” Mae West Is Winner, First Round of Suit E.lforts of Alleged Former Husband Gets Setback in N. Y. Court NEW YORK, June 11.—Efforts of Frank Wallace, former vaudeville actor to be declared the former hus- band of Mae West, met a setback today when Supreme Court Justice Cotillo ordered Wallace's petition stricken from the calendar The stricken order was given on the grounds the papers in the case like Sally | | hour standards should be set by Other candidates stepping aside be- states amendment. | Follow Democrats without a Constitutional fore the voting begins, appeared is morning as the delegates to the Republican National convention re- The words of the currency plnnk’nqsembled for the fifth session. are almost a literal repetition of | United States Senator Arthur H, those in the plank of the 1932 Demo- | Vandenberg released Michigan's 3§ cratic platform which was written by United States Senator Carter Glass. Other Planks Other chief points in the plat- form include the return of relief to local agencies to be handled through Federal grants, repeal of the unemployment and old age in- surance sections of the present So- cial Security law which is called “unworkable:" provide old age se- curity through graduated contribu-| tions of states; to help unemploy- ment insurance plans and to pro- tect rights of labor to bargain col- lectively. The Sub-Committee worked all night on the platform. - e RASMUSON, MRS, WHITE OKAYED had not been properly served on | Mae West. Counsel of Wallace promised a new action. { PR e e Prehistoric Animals Is Quest of Trip to Copper River Region FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 11.— Dr. 2. E. Rainey, professor of an- thropology at the University of Al- aska; John B. Dorsh, of the Amer- | lcan Museum, and Timothy Twitch- ell, university student, have left for 4. the Copper River to hunt the re-| mains of prehistoric animals and to obtain data on early Indian civ- ilization in that area. Ziegler on Summer Cruise in Interior; Painting Expedition FAIRBANKS ,Alaska, June 11. — E. P. Ziegler, Seattle artist, and Ted Lambert, painter of Alaska scenes, left today on a gasboat for a sum- mer cruise of the lower Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers. The two men and figures. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 11 | Among the approvals for member-| ship in the new National Com”| mittee of the Republicans are the following for Alaska: E. A. Rasmuson of Skagway, for National Committeeman and Mrs. Margaret White, of Juneau, for Na- tional Committeewoman, > *. +* STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, June 11.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 14'2, American Can 131%, American Power and Light 11%, Anaconda 34%, Bethlehem Steel 54%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, Gen- eral Motors 65%, International Har- vester 89%, Kennecott 387, United States Steel 63%, Commonwealth and Southern 3%, Cities Service 4%, Bremner 19 at 26, Pound $5.017%, Calumet 10% | The following are today's Dow, Industrials, 155.16; irnllfl, 47.07, utilities 32.50. DOW, JONES AVERAGES | Idaho, votes to support Governor Landon and suggesting that Gov. Frank D Fitzgerald, instead of putting his name in nomination, second the Landon nomination. Dickinson Out United States Senator L. J. Dicks inson, of Iowa, has withdrawn cons sent to allow his name to be placed |in nomination. Some Landon leaders expect Col. Frank Knox to withdraw and ac- cept the Vice-Presidential nomina- tion. Congratulations Senator Vandenberg said he was already telegraphed his congratula- tions. Senator William E. Borah, of has released 21 Wisconsin delegates and 10 Oregon delegates, pledged to him. California Too The California uninstructed dele- gation met during general excite- ment of candidates withdrawing in favor of Landon and although no poll was taken only four out of the 44 delegates openly expressed ops position to Landon. ‘The early hours of the morning session were spent in beating time waiting for the Platform Commit- tee to make its report. - Sourdough Tinsmith of Nome and Candle Passes Away Suddenly NOME, Alaska, June 11. — Louis Kurth, sourdough tinsmith of Nome and Candle, died here yesterday fol- owing a short illness. R Bemn, Mrs. Nafsted Are to Get On Landon Bandwagon CLEVELAND Ohxo June 11.—At a caucus of the delegation from Al- 1ska, attending the Republican Na- tional Convention, Henry Benson and Mrs. Florence Nafsted said they xould cast their votes for Gov. Al- fred M. Landon for the nomination or the President, and Albert White will cast his vote for Borah, Sen- itor of his home state.